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When all else fails, Iron Love prevails.- Keith Diaz sighted - Panorama 2019 chronicles

by Sharmain Baboolal

Keith Diaz can attest to that. The former President of Pan Trinbago, the man who is blamed for the bankruptcy of the annual Panorama competition was captured on Wednesday as he lovingly embraced his iron dearly during a break in

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Large Conventional Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2019 - Info

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Seventeen large steel orchestras are slated to participate in the 2019 Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama competition.

Following are the large conventional steel orchestras and their info.

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Large Steel Orchestra Prelims Underway - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2019

As has been the norm, the seventeen (17) Large Conventional Bands registered for Panorama 2019 will be visited by the judges and Pan Trinbago officials.

The competitors comprising four (4) from the East, seven (7) from the North, four (4) from the S

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And why is Pan Trinbago accepting this?

‎Winston Vallie‎ says:

Yesterday I heard the chairman of the NCC making statements on the radio and was shocked. This man is saying pantrinbago owes the government and so let them pay the players because the government has no intention of paying play

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63 Steelbands for National Panorama Single Pan Prelims

63 Steelbands for National Panorama Single Pan Prelims. Pan Trinbago’s National Panorama Single Pan Preliminaries will run off in all Regions over an eight (8) day period with a total of sixty three (63) registered bands. Bands will be judged at the

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Medium Conventional Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2019

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Twenty-four medium steel orchestras are slated to participate in the 2019 Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama competition. Following are the medium conventional steel orchestras and their info.

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Single Pan Bands - Order of Appearance - Finals - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2019

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -The appearance order for the twenty finalists in the National Panorama Single Pan Band finals has been released by Pan Trinbago, after eight days of preliminary single pan competition in the North, East, South/Central and To

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Culture Bus Mobile Party and Panyard Sensations

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Despers streams on Caziq - Steelband joins online music outlet

Trinidad Newsday

Don Carrington, of Caziq online music streaming service, at Desperadoes mas band launch on Friday. PHOTO BY GARY CARDINEZ

Desperadoes Steel Orchestra is set to take pan into the realm of online music streaming via Caziq.

This was re

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Single Pan Bands - Finals Results - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2019

San Juan Eastside Symphony San Juan Eastside Symphony  Wins Championship Single Pan  Band Title

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Victorious San Juan East Side Symphony did the East region proud on February 3, and bested nineteen fellow participants in the S

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Small Conventional Steel Orchestras - 2019 Panorama participants

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The Carnival is over - by Raffique Shah

Published with expressed permission of the author 
(Originally published in the Trinidad Express)

..It will take many men with many balls to reclaim our heritage, to put this Humpty Dumpty together again....

I was pleasantly surprised when the anno

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Nadia Batson is moved to tears of joy at Trinidad All Stars panyard

Nadia Batson is moved to tears of joy at Trinidad All Stars panyard after hearing her 2019 hit "So Long" being played by the iconic steel orchestra.

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Mayor: Lack of funding killing Sando Carnival

Trinidad Newsday

San Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello

“If this course of ac­tion by the NCC con­tin­ues along this path I am cer­tain the dis­rup­tion to Car­ni­val in San Fer­nan­do will progress to a point where there may not be Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­

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Panorama 2019 Performances

Arima All Stars Steel Orchestra performs for the judges at the Trinidad and Tobago National Single Pan Panorama Preliminaries 2019. They played "Different Me", a composition of Jovan James, sung by 5 Star Akil. The band's arranger is Andy A. Neils.

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An Opportunity for Pan

by Wesley Gibbings

Provided by, and republished with, the expressed permission of: the Author

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Let’s face it, notwithstanding the severe difficulties currently being faced by the organisation with overall responsibility for t

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Downbeat Magazine discovers Jonathan Scales

Jonathan Scales Extends Steel Pan Territory

INTERVIEW, NEWS, FROM THE MAGAZINE, JONATHAN SCALES
By Geoffrey Himes   I  Jan. 9, 2019

Béla Fleck knows a thing or two about establishing an identity in the jazz world while playing an unusual instrument.

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After 56 years of Panorama -- Panmen still face same issues

“We are going around in circles, spending large sums. Panorama started in 1963 and in 2019, we still have some of the same problems. We have not really evolved as we should have. We have not sat down and studied this event as a single event. Pulled

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2019 Single Pan Bands Prelims Results

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Bandits Strike Marsicans Single Pan Band

by Sharmain Baboolal

Arima, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Thieves climbed through a very small space between the roof and the wall at the Marsicans Steel Orchestra panyard and stole five chromed tenor pans from the band on Monday night.

That represents

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